Article 9: Separation from parents

The findings are part of a report documenting widespread physical, cultural and sexual abuse at government-sponsored residential schools run mostly by churches that Indian, Inuit and other indigenous children were forced to attend. 

Les amendements proposant d’interdire cet examen médical controversé, utilisé abusivement pour déterminer la majorité des jeunes migrants, ont été repoussés par le gouvernement.

Many children grow up in orphanages after more and more mothers also leave them in the search for work.